Styx

:: Synopsis

The transformation of a strong woman torn from her contented world during a sailing trip.

Rike -40, a doctor from Europe - embodies a typical Western model of happiness and success. She is educated, confident, determined and committed. We see Rike‘s everyday life, as an emergency doctor, before she fulfils a long-held dream and sails out to sea alone in her sailing boat.Her goal: Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean.But her dream holiday is quickly broken off on the high seas, when, after a storm, she finds herself near a stricken fishing boat. Around a hundred people are about to drown. Rike follows maritime law and radios for help. As her request is going nowhere, she is forced to make a fatal decision.

:: Credits

Directed by

Wolfgang Fischer

Written by

Wolfgang Fischer, Ika Künzel

With

Susanne Wolff, Gedion Oduor Wekesa, Kelvin Mutuku Ndinda

Camera

Benedict Neuenfels, aac/bvk

Editor

Monika Willi, aea

Re-Recording Mixer

Tobias Fleig, bvft

Sound Design

Uwe Dresch, Andre Zimmermann

Sound Recordist

Andreas Turnwald

Hair & Make Up Designer

Elke Hahn

Costume Designer

Nicole Fischnaller

Casting

Anja Dihrberg

Line Producer

Charles E. Breitkreuz

Commissioning Editors

Andrea Hanke, Georg Steinert

Supported by

Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Eurimages, Austrian Film Institute, Malta Film Commission, German Federal Film Fund, medienboard Berlin Brandenburg, German Federal Film Board, Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media

In collaboration with

WDR, Arte

Associate Producers

Kay Niessen, Michael Reuter, Andreas Fröhlich, Robert Gross

Producers

Marcos Kantis, Martin Lehwald, Michal Pokorny

Co-Producers

Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Bady Minck

Production

Schiwago Film

Co-Production

AMOUR FOU Vienna

Distribution Germany

Zorro Film

Distribution Austria

Filmladen

Worldsales

Beta Cinema

:: Awards & Nominations

latest nominations: finalist LUX Prize, European University Film Award

Special Award of the Jury @ Batumi International Art-House Film Festival 2018